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1133. Barathra curialis. (Plate XC. fig. 1.) 



Copimamcstra curialis, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 470 (1887); 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 113. 



$ . Dark fuscous. Fore wing with the hasal and postmedial areas 

 tinged with reddish, also the discal fold iii medial area ; the ante- 

 medial inner area with a faint greenish tinge ; subbasal line 

 double, indistinct, interrupted ; antemedial line erect, hardly trace- 

 able ; claviform defined by black ; orbicular almost obsolete, very 

 faintly defined ; reniform moderate, white, with irregular dark 

 central lunule and black outline ; postmedial line single, black, 

 strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa and incurved below 

 vein 4 ; postmedial area paler than ground-colour, with dark 

 striation and irroration, darker towards costa ; subterminal line 

 whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3; 

 terminal area with pale irroration, a terminal series of small black 

 lunules. Hind wing fuscous, darker towards termen ; the under- 

 side grej' with darker irroration, a discoidal spot and postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Canada, Orilla (Bush), 1 $ ; U.S.A., Maine, Kittery Point, 

 !New Hampshire, Frauconia. Exj). 43 miUim. ^ ^^ 



1134. Barathra brassicae. 



Xocfua brassicm, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 516 (1758) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 

 Noct. f. 88 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 37, pi. 102. f. 5 ; Steph. 111. Brit. 

 Ent., Haust. ii. p. 194 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 15(5. 



Kocfiia albidilinea. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 191 (1809) ; Steijh. 111. Brit. Ent., 

 Haust. ii. p. 195. 



Mainestra andahisica, Staud. Cat. p. 90 (1871). 



Mamestra decohraia, Staud. Stett. eut. Zeit. 1889, p. 34. 



Mamestra scotochroma, Rober, Iris, i. p. 340, pi. 12. f. 13 (1884). 



Mamestra straminea, Failla, Nat. Sic. x. p. 30, pi. 1. f. 5 (1890). 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; tarsi black with 

 whitish rings ; abdomen grey-brown, with the dorsal crests darker. 



Fig. 5. — Barathra brassicm, (^ . \. 



Fore wing dark brown irrorated with grey, a rufous tinge in discal 

 and submcdian folds and above inner margin before antemedial 

 line ; a small dark white-tipped fan of scales at base ; the sub- 

 basal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; the 



